|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Iran Nuclear Deal: A Definitive Guide
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
August 3, 2015
This report has been produced in the interest of contributing to informed Congressional review and public discourse on a comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran-the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). It provides a concise description of the agreement and the accompanying UN Security Council Resolution 2231. It also includes a balanced assessment of the agreement's strengths and weaknesses with respect to its central objective to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Read More
Download the Report
|
The Iran Deal and the Future of Nuclear Order
Adam Mount, The Internationalist
July 23, 2015
The nine nuclear weapons states that exist in the world today are still too many, but this number is a far cry from what might have been. Nevertheless, this month's deal with Iran is an historic step for nonproliferation: for the first time since the dawn of the nuclear era, no country is publicly known to be pursuing a nuclear weapon.
Read More
|
Understanding the Fuel Cycle in Iran Nuclear Agreement
Dr. F. Dalnoki-Veress, Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center
July, 2015
Iran has constructed several elaborate centrifuge enrichment facilities in order to produce fuel for its reactors. The same facility can be used for nuclear weapon production. The current treaty essentially closes such cheating scenarios by first cutting Iran's uranium enrichment capability by two-thirds and then dramatically slashing its current stockpile of low enriched uranium, increasing the time required to produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb from 2-3 months to upwards of a year.
Read More
|
Breaking Down the Risk of Nuclear Deterrence Failure
Seth Baum, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
July 27, 2015
In the international debate over nuclear disarmament, one long-running bone of contention is the effectiveness of nuclear deterrence-that is, using the threat of nuclear retaliation to prevent another state from going to war. Nuclear-armed states claim that maintaining (or only gradually reducing) the large arsenals required for deterrence is the safer path. Many non-nuclear states claim that nuclear deterrents make the world less safe, and that therefore rapid disarmament is required.
Read More
|
World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2015
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report
July 2015
The challenge to select and assess the outstanding events of the year for the release of the July 2015 edition of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report turned out to be particularly tough. While this report attempts to provide an overview of essential events of the past year its main aim is to identify and highlight the trends.
Read More
|
The Iran Nuclear Agreement and Iranian Missile Developments
Anthony H. Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies
July 22, 2015
The proposed nuclear agreement with Iran calls for an eight-year ban on the sale of new conventionally armed missiles. Like the fact the agreement permits conventional arms sales after five years, this has led to concerns that it might allow Iran to carry out a major military buildup in the future, aided by the fact that Iran could receive a major increase in its ability to fund such imports once sanctions are lifted.
Read More
|
The Iran Nuclear Agreement and Iranian Energy Exports
Anthony H. Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies
August 4, 2015
A new report by CSIS highlights the key features of the Iran nuclear agreement that will affect the timing of the lifting of sanctions, using work done by the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA), the CSIS Energy and National Security Program, and other experts on how sanctions have affected Iran's exports in the past and the possible implications of current trends.
Read More
Download the Report
|
|
|
|
Comments? We'd like to hear from you.
|
|
|
|
|
|
